Stephen F Austin was arrested for inciting riots and encouraging the Texians to defy Spanish law. Austin had gone to Mexico to meet with Santa Anna to try to work out a solution to the main complaints that Texians had. However while in town, a group had a small skirmish with some Spanish soldiers. Austin was there and seen as the head man in charge and therefore placed under arrest for the actions of people hundreds of miles away.
<span>When Andrew Jackson first created the Indian removal act, the cherokees were the first to leave, since they lived the closest to the lands of the United States. The Cherokees, in response, filed a lawsuit in court to justify thier beliefs that this was rightfully their land. Even though the Supreme Court ruled in their favor, Georgia governors removed them from their land anyways.</span>
The Peninsulares were those who were born in Spain while
Creoles were born in Latin America. The
Peninsulares enjoyed more rights and privileges
and this was resented by Creoles who were treated like second class
citizens. What made it more unfair was the fact that the Peninsulares were the
minority yet enjoyed all these privileges despite that.
The Muslim Almoravids disrupted the gold-salt trade that Ghana had controlled. Effects: Ghana never regained his power.
